Container of (work): Teorema (Motion picture) Container of (expression): Teorema (Motion picture). English.
Notes:
Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Laura Betti, Andres Jose Cruz Soublette, Ninetto Davoli. Title and credits from screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1968. New, restored 4K digital transfer. Booklet with program notes in English (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations) inserted in container. Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer; Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack featuring the voices of actor Terence Stamp and others; Audio commentary from 2007 featuring Robert S. C. Gordon, author of Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity; Introduction by director Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1969; Interview from 2007 with Stamp; New interview with John David Rhodes, author of Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini's Rome; New English subtitle translation; An essay by film scholar James Quandt.
Summary:
"One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini's most radical provocations finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger--perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil--who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family (including European cinema icons Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle-- blocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy--is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art anda primal scream into the void"--Container.
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